This article was originally published at ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1455696
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1455696
Corporate America didn’t stay appalled for long about RAGA and Stop the Steal.
Good morning all
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WOW… I am shocked and amazed that they would do that.
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When Corporate America realized how bad Trump was willing to screw we the people for donations they folded like a cheap suit.
“As much as the traffic will bear”
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There is this one name of someone who has his fingerprints all over the authoritarian direction that the Right is turned to. Someone who has never held an elected position, so has never had to interact with real folks. He’s the danger we need to root out.
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money
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Who here thought corporations were on their side? Raise your hand! Their original faux outrage was a masquerade. When the mask comes off, the bottom line and self-interest take over, And, now, back to our regularly-scheduled program.
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You are sending an inaccurate and self-defeating message with this article.
Those corporations that have backslid on their condemnations deserve scrutiny and scorn, but the leaders of the corporations that have maintained their position deserve just as much positive support (if not more).
Corporations literally exist to maximize revenue to shareholders, so the fact that many corporate boards are choosing to live up to higher values is a big deal. The tone of your article feeds a cynicism about all corporations that isn’t true.
Reward those doing the right thing with as much prominence as you condemn those that do wrong.
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Couldn’t you have done the rewarding you’re asking for by naming a few? I’ll start:
Disney
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I work for one, I check in with the company’s employee PAC as well to track their donations, but I am not an authorized representative so I am cautious about citing names myself.
But I can tell you, it’s not a small thing when a company sticks to its standards while its competitors don’t.
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The merger of corporate and state power is the heart of fascism. And the result is predictable.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/german-firms-that-used-slave-labor-during-nazi-era
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Corporations are backing Trump: Quelle suprise!
I forget who said it – something to the effect of , “fascism always arises when capital and the rich feel a strong threat to itself from the left”.
Didn’t fascistic governments arise, at least in part, to protect the rich? They love it.
They benefit from fascistic governments because such governments “take care” of them. What’s on the GOP agenda? Silly question. What else but deregulation, tax cuts and protection from prosecution?
Just yesterday we here in the TPM forum were saying that fascism does not have to entail jack boots and Nazi salutes. It comes in on little cat feet: Take control of women’s bodies.
Disable unions. Close libraries. Erode the ability to vote. Corrupt the court system.
I can’t happen here? No? Better look again.
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Nobody gets held to account because they have all the power, but that shouldn’t be when we have more money than they do. The inherent bias of the Senate notwithstanding.
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The novel thing is that today’s world is nothing like the interwar years in which fascism originally arose in that there is no real threat from the far left. There’s no serious challenge, or even input, from anarchists, communists or hard socialists to state power. ‘Expropriation of the means of production’ isn’t on anyone’s to do list.
Nonetheless, we have the right ginning up the specter of an activist left (‘ultra left, Marxist, woke Biden regime’) to mobilize support for their revanchist and reactionary agenda.
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Sure they did. Because the bright light isn’t on this anymore, so it’s safe to come out now.
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Also, corporations, the rich, and the economy in general do better under Democratic administrations than under Republican ones. You’d never know it from their rhetoric or who they support. You would think they would notice after 50 years or so.
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I suspect the explanation for that is in their enculturation and not in their experience or the result of their research.
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The modern threat from the Left isn’t expropriation, it’s forcing corporations to get serious about climate change. That’s the new boogieman from the Left, the replacement for communism that will cause major upheavals in corporate activity if any serious steps are taken for mitigation.
Corporations focus on short-term profits which is in direct conflict with what needs to be done. It will have to be forced by government action in many cases, like the EPA proposal below that was just announced. I can already hear the screams from oil and gas company boardrooms. (gifted link, should work)
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I would agree that’s a major driver for the corporatists who fund all the shit, but for their (what else can I call them but) Fox-news watching minions it’s a weird redefinition of the word “freedom” to mean “I get the freedom to tell the rest of you what to do”. It took me quite a while to shake off that cognitive dissonance shiver I would get each time I heard a Trumpkin use the word, but now I realize that it’s like hearing certain words in a foreign language - the phonemes may be similar, but they simply don’t mean the same thing in “their language”.
These folks love them their rigid hierarchies and are absolutely welded to their place in it (and ours, which by definition is below them, since we’re the “souless sinners” and “libruls”) and they love them their freedom to tell us what to do. As they feel it slipping away, they’re fighting harder and harder.
I’ve always been an optimist, but will confess that the current times do scare the shit out of me. I think the next gen get it and will one day look back on these times in ways similar to my memories of Civil Rights and Women’s Lib marches. We did it, and then things changed - now it’s the next gen’s turn to do it again and move th ball down the field yet again…
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Why yes, it’s right there in the Constitution, right under the signature of Button Gwinnett.
It’s a mind bending part of their dialect, but one which I am driven to believe they take for granted – the freedom to exploit, intimidate and dominate others. (ed.)
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